If you are having problems reading this email, please view it online here.
 | | |  | | | CONTEXT Q&A
One of the main obstacles to growth in Africa is the lack of intra-African trade and commerce. Africa Program Director Steven McDonald describes recent international efforts to encourage regional integration which he believes will accelerate economic growth, promote peace and stability, and support sustainable development goals.
Event | 54 Countries, One Union Event | Africa: 53 Countries, One Union - The New Challenges | | |  | Dhaka Forecloses the Grameen Brand
Op-ed | Wall Street Journal Bangladesh's government has chosen a path that clearly will lead to taking over the pioneering microfinance bank, just as its founder, Nobel Prize winner Muhammed Yunus, feared. In this op-ed, Senior Scholar and former Ambassador to Bangladesh William Milam describes the motivations of Prime Minister Hasina's government to bring the bank down and laments that due to Western inaction, it may now be too late to reverse course.
Event | Perfect Storm? Population Pressures, Natural Resource Constraints, and Climate Change in Bangladesh |  | Care Workers Around the World
Audio | NPR's Kojo Nnamdi Show The vast majority of people who care for children, the elderly and disabled in wealthy places like the United States come from developing countries. Immigrants who do these jobs are typically paid poorly and offered few basic workplace protections. It's a trend that's also creating care gaps in the families and societies these workers leave behind. Senior Scholar Sonya Michel looks at the "global care chain" on the Kojo Nnamdi Show.
Publication: Women, Migration and the Work of Care: The United States in Comparative Perspective
Event Video: Immigration Reform's Hidden Challenge: Who Is Going to Care for the Baby Boomers? |  | The Swing Vote: The Untapped Power of Independents
This week, on an encore broadcast of dialogue, we are joined by journalist and Wilson Center senior scholar, Linda Killian. Her new book, The Swing Vote: The Untapped Power of Independents, examines this rapidly growing segment of the American electorate and presents a new model that reveals who they are and what they want from their government and elected officials.
watch > | | | | | | | | | Will Syria's Kurds Benefit From the Crisis? — BBC Distinguished Scholar Aaron David Miller believes that the Kurds could be one of the main beneficiaries of the demise of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. "Syria is coming apart, and there's not much chance it will be reassembled with the kind of centralized authority we saw under the Assads." | | The Silence Surrounding Pakistan's Most Serious Threats — Dawn Program Associate Michael Kugelman wonders why more people aren't concerned about human security issues in Pakistan, which affect so many more Pakistanis than do extremism, political infighting, or US policies. | | 'Robo-Mosquitoes' in Margaritaville? — The Miami Herald Science and Technology Innovation Program Director David Rejeski and Public Policy Scholar Eleonore Pauwels discuss the public pushback against trying to introduce a genetically modified mosquito in Key West to eradicate the dreaded Dengue virus. | | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza - 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC 19004-3027
T 202-691-4000
© Copyright 2012. The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. All rights reserved.
| Privacy | Unsubscribe | | | |
The Role of the Opposition in Meeting Nigeria's Challenges
No comments:
Post a Comment